Description of problem:
When installing F10-Alpha with an encrypted root device onto a IBM Power5 ppc system that does not have a vga adapter, the system appears to hang during boot up and not prompt for the passphrase. There isn't anything obvious from the boot.log
During boot-up, plymouth and plymouthd appear to fail when run inside the initrd (encrypted root fs).
I have unpacked the initrd while in rescue-mode on the system, and run the /init script plymouth and plymouthd commands by hand.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F10-Alpha, and the following updates:
mkinitrd-6.0.58-1.fc10.ppc
plymouth-0.5.0-12.2008.08.06.fc10.ppc
Steps to reproduce:
$ mkdir /tmp/initrd ; cd /tmp/initrd
$ zcat /boot/initrd... | cpio -id
$ ./bin/plymouthd
<ctrl-z> and bg to background the process
$ ./bin/plymouth --show-splash
error: unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon
I have posted an strace from both:
* the plymouthd cmd - http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/plymouthd.strace
* the plymouth cmd - http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/plymouth.strace
How reproducible:
* anytime I install with an encrypted root on a headless ppc system
Actual results:
* system hangs during boot ... does not mount or prompt for encrypted root device
Expected results:
* Normal boot